Hunter (left) and Emmett Athearn walked along Rogers Path yesterday as they carried new flags for a veteran’s gravesite at a Martha’s Vineyard cemetery.
(Steve Haines for The Boston Globe)
Wrangling over ancient ways
Judge preserves public’s right to island pathway
Hunter (left) and Emmett Athearn walked along Rogers Path yesterday as they carried new flags for a veteran’s gravesite at a Martha’s Vineyard cemetery.
(Steve Haines for The Boston Globe)
Every Veterans Day and Memorial Day, and once or twice in between, Brian Athearn and his two young sons walk a narrow, grassy path to a tiny, half-forgotten Martha’s Vineyard cemetery. There, the boys salute before a lone veteran’s grave, and their father - the veterans’ graves officer for the town of West Tisbury, and a descendant of one of ... (Full article: 887 words)
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